Adrian Jackson performed a very quick change for his latest role. Fresh from having played a nervous vest-wearing geek in his most recent stage performance, he prepared himself to do the “full monty” for a packed theatre audience. Adrian insisted that he was up for the challenge – even with only a strategically placed brief case to spare his blushes. “It is not something that I have ever done before”, he said, “and I do not regard myself as an exhibitionist under normal circumstances, but I am happy to do it in the name of fun, and because it provided good motivation for going to the gym.”
Adrian, of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, played the part of Keno Walsh in the West End Operatic Society production of “The Full Monty” at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne in April. He landed the role after his previous performance as Oscar Lindquist in the South Shields Gilbert and Sullivan Society production of “Sweet Charity”. In that role, as a nervous bumbler who was quite geeky and claustrophobic,.he had removed clothing on stage down to his vest and underpants. It was Adrian’s wife Dianne who mentioned his less dramatic strip to a member of the WEOS, so was unknowingly instrumental in him getting the part. Both of hese two roles were a far cry from Adrian’s day job as a Watch Manager in Learning and Development for the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service.
